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" One thing I won't do in television is a sitcom. I find that world to be so neurotic and bizarre. "

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" I sincerely believe that for the New York theatre to remain relevant, all our major producing institutions should be presenting new American plays. "

" I think we have a cultural difficulty with looking at our problems. "

" You have to respect who the character is. It has its own internal truth, and you can't betray that. And if you don't betray that, it will not betray you. "

" I like to write. Prolific is part of who I am. "

" I remember when I was at Brandeis, Geoffrey Wolff, he was a great fiction-writing teacher. He was the writer-in-residence, and for those of us who wanted to be writers, you were so excited to be in the same hallway as him. "

" I have tremendous affection for New York and my life, but I'm a satirist at heart. And it's easy to satirize New York. "

" It's sort of a mystery where ideas come from. "

" Honestly, the thing that I have found to be most useful over a long career, or maintaining a long career, is taking back the power at some point and self-producing. "

" Rarely do I try to pull a creature out of life and make it a character. "

" I am curious about a lot of things. I'm perplexed and engaged. "

" I had such a good experience doing 'The Understudy' with the Roundabout, and people were really enthusiastic about the work. "

" Part of the problem with producing contemporary political theater in America today is that many theaters don't have flexibility or resources, be it hiring a lot of actors or staging a work that might be tough for some audience and board members. "

" I do believe that there are monsters out there - and that they are monsters. "

" New York was the Promised Land growing up. Writers were gods! The great gods of American culture... I thought. "

" There are so many people from many different classes and ways of life who converge in one space to make a musical. "

" Because I'm an American woman, and I write straight plays, it's always been sort of assumed I would never be done on Broadway. But that was never the goal. "

" Is the American theatre allowing itself to become irrelevant? The problem isn't that playwrights aren't being paid enough. It's that theatres all over America are looking towards New York to tell them what new plays to do. "

" I'm an impatient person. "

" Everyone pays lip service to this whole idea of doing more new plays, and nobody ever does it. "

" We need theatre that is contemporary, lively and relevant, and the only way to do that is to take care of our playwrights and produce their plays. "

" We have this powerful ideological basis to the country that I don't think any other country in the world quite can brag about. It's a very complicated nation, and it's very fertile. "

" I often find it maddening to live in America, in a way that is both amusing and horrifying to me. America clings to versions of itself that are absolutely hypocritical. I can't shake my outrage at it, so I write about it. "

" I actuall have to defend realism in theatre because I think TV does it badly - so corrupted by layers of bureaucrats who want to leave examination or psychology. "

" Some of my family goes back a long way in Denver. "

" I have always worked consistently, even in small ways and even in smaller theaters where I'll do One Acts or something. "

" That stupid postmodern emphasis on image over content has slammed us right into a dramaturgy that willfully leaves the audience behind and then resents the fact that they don't 'get it.' "

" Heath Ledger's recent death, like that of River Phoenix, was handled with great care by the press. Anna Nicole Smith's not so much. "

" I would rather work in the theater than anywhere else, and it does seem to be a place where stories can and should be told purely. "

" Denver's commitment to giving contemporary storytellers the stage is crucial to the American theater. That's something embraced by 'Smash.' We should be telling our own stories. "

" I have admiration for people who can do it well - the guys who wrote 'Cheers' and 'Frasier.' They created sort of a blissful comedic universe. "